Grubb v. State

OPINION

ROBERT E. BOWEN, Acting Judge. *

This quiet-title action comes to us on appeal from an order denying appellant’s motion for a new trial, following a trial which resulted in a judgment awarding respondents title by adverse possession. Respondents seek review of the trial court’s determination that the action did not involve a boundary-line dispute. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

FACTS

On July 29, 1961, respondents purchased a 43-acre farm in Rice County. At the time of the purchase, St. Olaf College (college) owned 16 acres of land adjoining respondents’ land on the north and west,…